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‘Science needs defending’: record number of researchers run for office in US mid-terms Many Democrats making the switch to politics are motivated by the Trump administration’s cuts to science — whereas energy and AI are a pull for some Republicans.

Science and democracy need defending.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you want take a dive into Ioannidis & Bhattacharya's approach to 'Epidemiologic Research' via their flawed Santa Clara serological survey that vastly inflated the scope of prior COVID infections, Asymptomatic is now 40% off at JHU Press w/code: HLFE26.

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The Social Lives of Viruses is coming to Vancouver, Canada, from 4th-8th August 2026!

This is a free meeting dedicated to all aspects of virus-virus interactions & evolution.

To apply: socialviruses.zoology.ubc.ca

@sociovirology.bsky.social #socialviruses #evosky #lovevirology #virosky

How do tumors or bacteria modulate their environment, and how does that translate into their growth? What can we learn from maths, and what are the implications for cancer therapy or ecosystem resilience? Register here for the first Eco-Onco session, April 22nd forms.gle/B77tZmyzCzmp...

Be part of the amazing PhD community at the Living Systems Institute, UoE. @exeter.ac.uk Work in a truly interdisciplinary place with Maths, Physics, CS, Bio & Biomed co-located in one building. Applications for LSI-funded PhD studentships are open now! www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins... #FindaPhD

Hey y'all. Love all the love for the program (we're pretty proud of it too). But the fact that the solicitation is archived does NOT mean that the program is shutting down. We're hanging in there, struggling through the uncertainty with everyone else.

Exciting opportunity for early career scientists! The ISME ECSC is seeking 2 new members.

Want to get involved, and help shape the future of the community? Submit your CV and personal statement by 10 April 2026.

Find out more and apply here:
isme-microbes.org/isme-early-c...

Postdoctoral Scholar - Ferrari lab APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

Come work with me at Penn State on the dynamics of pathogen elimination. We're hiring up to two positions to support our work on measles/rubella and foot and mouth disease elimination @ciddpsu.bsky.social

The first Eco-Onco Exchange seminar has been postponed by one week, to Apr 22nd! Register here: forms.gle/B77tZmyzCzmp...

Get ready for #DISCO and #PODS in Dec. 2026! Apply by May 1. www.soest.hawaii.edu/DISCO/ and www.soest.hawaii.edu/PODS/ @usclivar.bsky.social 🌊

Two postdoc positions open at SUMOC (Sorbonne Université | INSERM), Paris, within the EPIcx lab.

🦠 Network epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections (ARCANE)
🧠 Coupled behavior–disease modeling (PREVIX)

2-y positions | Start June 2026
#epidemiology #networks #matrices

Okay, map is back and working again.

Mexico data is pulled from:

www.gob.mx/salud/docume...

Canada:

health-infobase.canada.ca/measles-rube...

USA:

github.com/CSSEGISandDa...

Join us for the launch event! We are excited to invite you to the official launch of the Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics (GSIDD) on February 26th, 2026.This launch marks an important milestone for our global communi...

Launch of the Global Society of Infectious Disease Dynamics. 🎉

2 online webinars on Thursday 26th.
Do join to see what it's all about, and get involved in the community as it kicks off!

www.gsidd.org/post/join-us...

Happy 38th birthday to the #LTEE!
#BOTD in 1988.
Keep on evolving!

#science #evolution #microbiology

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America’s science and medical research system may have been world-class before but did not have the institutional and legal safeguards to prevent a grievance-fueled takeover. This piece unpacks the COVID origins of that grievance and the imperatives for a transformation. https://substack.com/home/post/p-188677740

Grievance Is All You Need

.... understanding attacks on NIH, CDC and FDA through the lens of COVID revisionists:

joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/grievance-...

graph with age on the x-axis and population size on the y-axis. A curve indicates population size decreasing with age. It is shaded in orange under the curve.

I use this (overly simplified) schematic to explain to folks why maintaining high measles immunity is so hard. Even with 100% coverage, you get different outcomes depending on who and when you vaccinate.

Consider a population with more kids than adults -- start with them all being susceptible.

New Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study's Unusual Path to CDC Approval A new investigation has found irregularities in the ethics review of a grant to study effects of a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.

Superb reporting from @katherineeban.bsky.social for @rollingstone.com on the scandal around the RFK-fueled, unethical HBV vaccine study in Guinea Bissau that horrified CDC staff, scientists and ethicists around the world. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Uptick in mumps in MD: 19 cases, 7 probable so far in 2026. Compared to 21 total cases across the period 2022-2025.

We are hiring at UGA! We’re looking for a full professor & director of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (based right on the coast in Savannah, GA). Please pass on the job ad to anyone in your networks who may be interested: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/468...

Very cool!

Excited to share our grad student Maxine Pruvot’s (@maxinepruvot.bsky.social) first PhD preprint: 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴

🔗 Full text: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.12.705374v1

Quantitative Biology postdocs (x3) available at University of Maryland, College Park. Best consideration date is March 13, to start in summer 2026. Please share and consider joining us!

umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

Measles is raging worldwide: are you at risk? Cases in fully vaccinated people are rare and usually mild, but are likely to become more common as exposure to the virus rises.

Check out this @nature.com News explainer article on measles, with my comments about our prior work, and featuring an upcoming article led by Drs @malar0ne.bsky.social and @joshuasweitz.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you (or a mentee) are a NSF GRFP applicant in the life sciences who had a submission Returned Without Review, I'd be interested in hearing your story. I'm a reporter at STAT News, and my email is jonathan.wosen@statnews.com. I'm also reachable via Signal (username jwosen.27) #journorequest

The "Ten New Insights in Climate Science (10NICS)" is an impressive project that leads to a very high-profile policy relevant paper each year. Get involved if you can (details in the attached message from @daniel-ospina.bsky.social)!

We have a lot of fun here at colin carlson dot bluesky dot social but let's go inside the bit for a second. If NSF fails to pay out the annual increment of the @viralemergence.org center grant a third time in six months, there is literally nothing I can tell my team about why they shouldn't quit

Map of ice coverage

The Chesapeake Bay is starting to freeze—today's map, issued by the National Ice Center, shows fast ice in the tidal fresh rivers at the head of the Bay, and on the Potomac off of Washington, with coverage expanding toward the south.